In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman, the Chief Executive of the Institute, argues that, "the violence that erupted after the Soweto shootings in 1976 showed there were issues far bigger than imposing Afrikaans as a language of instruction. So also, the Marikana shootings on 16th August have brought a host of issues to the fore."
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The number of public schools in the country decreased by 9% between 2000 and 2011, from 26 789 to 24 365, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
The proportion of South African adults with the lowest living standards fell from 11% in 2001 to 1% in 2011. In the same period, the proportion of people with the highest living standards increased from 5% to 6%, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
The South African Institute of Race Relations welcomes the President’s statement calling for a national debate on families in South Africa.
Despite great outrage over the Marikana massacre, South Africans are not uniting to demand the resignation of the national police commissioner and the minister of police.
Numerous types of chickens are coming home to roost in South Africa. During their long campaign to win power by making the country ungovernable via a no-holds-barred "people’s war", the ruling alliance made up of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), injected into the bloodstream of the body politic a virus of violence that they cannot now eradicate.
’n Vraag waarmee ek dikwels in my werk gekonfronteer word, is hoekom Suid-Afrika sulke ernstige maatskaplike probleme het, waaronder die gewelddadige aard van misdaad en ons hoë MIV-koers.
The South African Institute of Race Relations calls for the immediate suspension of all police officers involved in the shooting at Lonmin yesterday pending charges of murder and/or culpable homicide.
There is a shortage of social workers working in the government and non-profit sectors, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
It is all too easy to criticise governments. However, there is an example where the government is due credit, mainly because it shows how things can be done. This is the successful implementation of a nationwide HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programme that has come to light most recently at the 19th International AIDS Conference held in Washington DC.
Commercial farmers account for 95% of the country’s locally-produced food, planting their crops on only 5% of total agricultural land and owning 72% of all livestock, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
The seven or more SACP members of the Cabinet are only the tip of the iceberg of communist influence in the government and the public sector. If their interventions cause even more economic and social damage, they will not apologise but rejoice - and call for even more state power for themselves.